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re filled, recruiting for new regiments should not be undertaken. Having given his own opinion, however, he asks the General to forward a roster of company officers for the regiment he wishes to raise, and he would authorize a new regiment to begin in a week from Monday next, under Captain Henry L. Abbott (of Massachusetts), of the United States Topographical Engineers, for colonel; and Charles Everett, late colonel of District of Columbia Volunteers, formerly serving in Mexico, or Major Francis Brinley, for lieutenant-colonel; the major to be seasonably selected. The Governor disclaims any knowledge of recruiting officers offering private bounties, and asks that the names of such persons may be sent to him, that the more speedy and vigilant measures for suppression and rebuke may be instituted. In the matter of recruiting and organizing regiments, the Governor says, We have pursued a system, carefully, watchfully, faithfully, and zealously, in which, by the intelligent aid and